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Issue 320 (October 2024) - Brighter Smarter Homes

Light up your life with Home Assistant and low-cost Zigbee smart lighting! We show you how you can create an open and extendable smart home with custom controls using Home Assistant, the Raspberry Pi – or a spire PC – and a bit of Linux magic!

PLUS: the best distros for beginners, upgrading your Nvidia graphics, relive using WW2 enigma encryption, code the Psion 3 again, add colour to your shell, fix your Linux networks, explore AI PCs and loads more!

 Features

Home assistant

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Inside the AI PC

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

Fix services (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

mount drivers, public wifi (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

VirtualBox, Signal, GpgFrontend, Alpaca, Keypunch, Falkon, A-Mazing Urho, Etcher (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal - faster downloads

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Basics - networks

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OnlyOffce PDF tricks

(Kseniya)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emulation - Psion 3

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Encryption - WW2 Enigma

(Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Upgrade - Nvidia GPUs

(Neil Mohr)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi Pico 2 WiFi

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

BreadboardOS

(Tam Hanna)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coding Academy

Add colour to the LXF Shell

(Ferenc Deak)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Create a VS Code extension

(David Bolton)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Reviews

GNUCash

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Vanilla OS 2

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Emmabuntus DE 5

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Sleeper OS Bee 2

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Schim

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra

(Denise Bertacchi)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi Pico 2

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Beginner distros

MX Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Linux Lite (Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

Canonical, GIMP, 0.0.0.0 Day, Rust anger (Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel watch

(Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Intel Pi rival (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.